Bruce Klingner

Mr. Klingner is the senior research fellow for Northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation`s Asian Studies Center. He joined Heritage in 2007 after 20 years in the intelligence community working at the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency. In 1993, he was the selected as chief of the CIA’s Korea Branch which provided analytic reports on military developments during the nuclear crisis with North Korea. From 1996 to 2001, Klingner was the deputy chief for Korea in the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence where he was responsible for analyzing Korean political, military, economic, and leadership issues for the president and other senior policymakers.